That's funny.. I switched to FreeBSD out of Win2K because I was unhappy with 2K. My experience with Linux distro's, and I tried many of them over the years, is that each of them is different from the other. This requires me to learn a great many different versions of Linux (yes I know, 7.3 is not the version numer.. it's measured by kernel rev. etc..). But in operation each distro is different. SuSE differs from Mandrake differs from Slackware differs from Redhat etc. I take FreeBSD, set up the bare bones system, and get to be there and see where everything goes when I install it. Afterwards I can just copy/usr/ports/distfiles to any other box I want similarly configured. This cuts a lot of the download times. I then start the compile with the make.conf set to the proper CPU type on that box. This makes a difference many times on Intel hardware! Then when that's done I just dupe all of/usr/local/etc to the new box, restart the necessary daemons and I have two identical servers.
I did try FreeBSD on a desktop, and no, it's not a very fast-paced OS for games or anything. But then again, if I want games, I'll buy a PS2 but that's just me I guess. I use my FreeBSD desktop now for basic office work, and to be able to test new stuff locally before deploying anything.
My point is that if you want to know where everything goes, BSD is great, Slackware Linux too, but that's the ONLY Linux I know that works like this. Admitted, I haven't tried Gentoo yet but portage sounds good.
Also I used to run a server on SuSE 7.3 because I needed it set up very quickly and indeed, nothing beats a GUI setup when it comes to quickly setting up. Fire and forget, so to say. But man, was I sorry!!
The network card kept failing consistently without showing anything in logs. Network card fried?? Surprisingly, no! I decided to take the whole thing down, install *BSD, and it's now been running solidly ever since 4.6.2 was made a RELEASE. I've installed about 25 different BSD servers overtime during the past year and NONE of them required a reboot for any reason other than planned upgrades or hardware failure and some of those take LOTS of punishment 24/7.
I wish I could say the same about my Linux experiences, and I actually did try many times ever since RedHat 6.0 came out.
Know what you want, find the best tool for the job, and learn how to use it. The best desktop OS is a BSD anyway, but doesn't run on x86. I'll switch as soon as my Athlon 1100 gets really obsolete!
Luckily I have nothing to do with the DMCA since I'm not a citizen of the US. However, you shouldn't be reading any of my subversive comments.. You government might think you're being pushed into terrorism and flagrant subversion of American corporate business models.
If applied with some care, the walkman could just as easily be broken off the disc. "oops, it fell ten stories down when the reviewer was listening to it while leaning out is office window having a smoke".
Or am I missing something here?? Otherwise, just clip the headphone wire.. hook them up to plain old audio plugs, or a mini jack and off you go into a decent sound card.
I'd say the digital part has to be done differently by providing a player with the album stored in some sort of encrypted ROM chip, but even then.. sound is still sound and must be made audible at some point to be appreciated. That's where you can tap it, and make a plain MP3 out of it. Sony are just making themselve impopular with this kind of practice. When will the big companies learn that the genie is out, it's unstoppable, and their business models just need adjustment???
Even then I'd not use 5 in a mission critical setting just yet. As far as I can tell (haven't installed it yet, last time I tried it didn't work) it's got so many changes that some vital stuff is still bound to be broken and the team seems to be rushing the thing out. They have to, after last year's debacle, to maintain some credibility.
I'll stick with the final 4.x release+patches until 5.1 sees daylight. That is, I sure as hell will put 5.0 on my home box, but not at work!;-)
That's probably the most egocentric rant/troll I EVER saw on slashdot! Squeezing your whole polemic into a single sentence you're essentially saying this: "I myself am the only and utmost important being on this planet, I shall strive solely for my own good inside the small sphere in which I live my daily life, the rest of the planet and all of the universe around it be damned."
This mentality, which I probably exaggerated a bit here but that's to prove a point, is the main cause for regulation to have been instated long ago when the USA industrialized.
Anti-trust laws are there in fact to keep a democratic society from morphing into essentially a communist model. If General Motors, Microsoft, Bell, Enron etc were not checked the US would soon end up with a small set of huge megacorps that run the whole show. How is that different from the state owned manufacturing facilities that were set up in communist countries? Yeah so your megacorps are privately owned.. by a lucky few, just as the communist party consisted of a lucky few who essentially owned the big plants in their countries.
There is indeed no one person to figure this all out, and neither is there one system that will work properly at all times. Communism, if executed by a non-corrupt team of coordinators, would work great in times of crisis. Whereas liberalism, if executed by non-corrupt executives, works great during prosperous times to drive innovation.
You have a wave in economics that cycles approximately every 10 years or so. I'm not an economist so don't shoot me if I'm a few years off here, but the wave motion certainly is there. My guess is that this is caused by political rigidness and the natural inertia of policy creation and implementation.
The current 1st world (where you get the idea behind the USA's "vast lead" from is a mistery to me), is about as ideal as it gets.. considering human nature and our inclination towards greed. I don't believe in Utopia, but I try to do some good for myself as well as for other people in my direct surroundings every day. I'm not going to change the world, but at least I can keep a tiny little patch of it clean and make a miniscule number of people in it happy from time to time. The rest is up to the gods, but I don't expect to hear from them anytime soon.
No offense here, but it's pretty dumb not to read your own paper before handing it in now isn't it;-)) What if Mr. Grolier had made a stupid typo somewhere!! Yikes, wouldn't want that!!
I just talked to a 14 year-old girl (friend's little sister) the other day who asked me about some assignment she had. Something to do with the dutch constitutions and how the Liberals forced a change in that in 1848.
I told her to surf to google and stuff "1848" and "constitution" (in dutch) into the thing and set the language to dutch. Presto, there she had all the info she needed ready to cut and paste into word and put her own name underneath.
This is of course flagrant plagiarism and illegal most of the time (which I told her), but does she care?? Not one bit, at least not yet.. and no teacher is going to find out. Probably this situation will last for years to come and we'll grow a nice generation of frauds until the teachers wisen up on the not-so-legitimate use of the Net by students.
That don't impress me much, as one of my favorite non-teen female singers tends to say. I can fork over $5000,- and follow a bit of training. However does that make me a good consultant for JBoss or anything else? I don't think so. Quality as a consultant in this field depends on more than just certificates and you simply can not do your job well based on just a JBoss certificate.
You must know the implications of the underlying OS, hardware, network system etc. before you can make any sort of informed decision at all about anything to do with IT, including JBoss.
Certification/branding, which are synonyms in my book, can only work properly if the training procedure is audited and the trainees get proper examinations where it is possible to fail. I've seen all too many courses where you just go there, sit in a classroom at a screen for two days, fill in a bogus test and receive your certificate no matter how horribly you did on your test.. You paid for it, so you're getting your cert. Practices like these make me very wary of 'branded' developers or consultants.
Luckily I'm not in any position to hire personnel, I'd hate that.. but I know I would put them through a pretty strenuous pre setup hands-on test instead of an interview.
Well that's what I did.. and I read through each and every text MS threw at me during the process. I just find it funny that I can't seem to find the dreaded paragraph in any of the EULA bits..
The gap between the price/size ratio of harddisks and that of backup media/drives is becoming ever wider. It's getting almost exponentially more expensive to back up all of your data, Moore doesn't apply to tape backup I guess.
What we need is a reliable, fast and cheap system to back up those 200+GB disk arrays without fuss and preferably on a single piece of media. ADR seems nice, but in my experience the reliability is sloppy.. Other alternatives are WAY too expensive compared to how cheap it is to build huge disk arrays.
I trawled through the entire Win2K Pro Eula here in the Netherlands when I got it from a shop, then read through all the additions that came with updates (SP2, SP3 and other smaller patches). Nowhere in the whole EULA or its additions could I find any statement that allows MS any access to my system whatsoever. Is there a difference in EULA's here, or am I just cross eyed??
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So there should be at least ONE distro that attempts such unification. People who don't have the ability to customize their own desktop to the extent necessary for their needs, should be offered a choice.
This unified desktop theming seems like a brilliant way to make inroads into the corporate desktop. Nothing fancy, just plain consinstent use of your computer for productivity. I like it!
If you want custom, get Slack!
I see a plethora of distro's that do only a specific task. SuSE is good at this by providing separate packages for mail servers, database servers and what not. These packages al work just great, but what makes Windows so great on the corporate desktop?? Hardly anything Linux can't do today, or even yesterday.
The typical corporate desktop contains the OS, Office and some online reference data like phone directories. Hardly anything more because if it gets more specialized, the IS department takes it out of the pool of standard desktops and treats it like a "workstation" or whatever because of the added complexity even if it's only a single app.
What amazes me so much is that not a single distribution builder has come up with a plain vanilla corporate desktop. Openoffice, Evolution, most phone directories can be run using Wine since nothing fancy goes on under the hood, and you're done for 98% of office desktops!
Provide a seamlessly integrating distribution for servers alongside with that, so that those hundreds of desktops can connect to it by default and as far as I know you'd be ready to kick some serious ass within your corp.
It shouldn't be the corporate IS department's job to assemble a stable distro for this purpose. SuSE, Mandrake and Redhat have shown great skill at building special purpose Linux distributions, they just left this one gap open.
Windows has done this for years.. Windows NT Workstation and Server were a great couple, need I mention the different breeds of Win2K? From your laptop all the way up to the biggest iron Intel has to offer.
Linux does a great job at competing with the NT-based server products, and it'll be a long while before it gets dummy-proof enough for home users, but with an artificially limited set of applications and tech support staff only a phonecall away I'm sure Linux is already mature enough for the corporate desktop. From there on it's only a small step to the home PC, the same happened with MS-DOS way back then..
So where's Intel's response to all this? Will the Hammer be of much concern to players like Sun, who also offer cheap Sparcs nowadays? How does Hammer live up to Motorola's G4 (what's taking the G5 so long anyway??). I had expected a LITTLE more depth to a story like this. This is just a poorly cut/pasted buch of marketing speak. So ok, the new athlons will have heat spreading.. No need to waste so much space on that.
Then why does the OS-X faq from Apple state: "that apart from a few architectural difference (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform)."
Or from OSnews:
At its heart Mac OS X is a descendant of FreeBSD. The Apple engineers used FreeBSD as a blueprint for OS X.
Can you spell BSD as in OS-X??? Damn straight BSD isn't dead, far from it even, and it's bound to expand rapidly to overwhelm Linux's market share on the desktop AND low-end server if Apple play their cards right.
set your cvs tag to 4_6_1 and cvsup your sources. You'll get 4.6.1 don't worry, it was there.. be it for a very short while and as far as I can tell not really worthy of a point release. Why not just stick to 4.6-RELEASE and bump up the patch level all you want until 4.7-RELEASE?? (I know 5.0 probably should come out before 4.7 but hey.. who knows..)
How about the Czech Sudenten-area, the annexation of Austria, the assimilation of Saarland??? Neville just kept turning the other cheek.. his butt cheeks even and he got them smacked proper!
The original poster is wrong by comparing the British reaction to Germany's invasion of Poland, but the fact of the matter is that the larger powers in Europe at the time did NOTHING for a very long while to stop Germany's expansion into other sovereign states' territory. Probably Austria's "Anschluss" was semi-voluntary, but the annihilation of Czechoslovakia as an autonomous and self-supporting state certainly wasn't!!
The British government had been issuing warnings to the German government about those incidents, and when Germany invaded Poland the British couldn't suffer more loss of face so they reluctantly declared war.
Learn your copulating history right next time.
I have one of those 8-inch monsters here in my attic too. A double drive even, in a separate unit bigger than your average microwave these days and more noisy than a harley davidson in heat. It's not a TRS-80 though, it's some freaky IBM word processing machine from the early seventies called a VisiText (or similar). I don't remember it storing more than 160K on either side of the HUGE disks though.. was it really 500K?? Wow.. wish I could actually PROGRAM that thing, but it's all closed. The thing doesn't run anything other than DisplayWrite 2.
If anyone has more info on this beast, I'd love to hear from you. Sadly as far as I know there were only 12 or so ever made.. or at least in operation worldwide:-(
Wow, a turntable that reverses the earth's magnetic poles!! Where can I get one of those!?!? Imagine all the fun that can be had with one of those, not to mention the awesome breakbeats oozing out of my speakers while I wreak havoc on the world's compasses!!:-)) (--insert megalomanic grin here)
Aren't CPU's marketed in the same way? I recall this from the i386-era when i read in some magazine (PC Format if I'm not mistaken) about how these chips were all produced identically by Intel but differentiated during testing. The testing was said to start at 33MHz. and stepped down to 25, 20 and 16MHz. depending on the reliability. As soon as the chip endured one of the tests properly it would get labeled and sold at the tested clock rate. I don't know how much of this is true, if any, but it wouldnt seem too unlikely to me. If you could still sell hardware that can't reach its full potential but is well reliable at half its spec, I'd think most manufacturers would.
I've used this, and I don't like it. I pitted Photoshop (then at version 3.0) against PhotoPaint (then at version 5) and was horribly disgusted at the clumsiness with which Photopaint worked. Mind you, I was actually using Photopaint before I ever got a copy of Photoshop to play with so I wasn't biased towards Adobe. They just had a MUCH better product there and then. Nowadays Photoshop 6 fills all my needs, and I haven't checked back on photopaint since version 7 which I then compared to photoshop 4.0 if I'm not mistaken, but IMHO it still sucks eggs compared to Adobe's offering. Colour is important to me, I send it to professional presses not just desktop inkjets and photopaint (ver. 7 at least, I realize we're at 10 or something like that nowadays) just doesn't cut it. Transparency is also something Photoshop shines at..
I for one prefer Adobe's offerings above anything else I've seen on the market for the past 10 years. This 'market' being mostly the warez-scene for me back then.. I was 14.. but it doesn't make any difference now that I'm running a business and using the latest Photoshop legally. The Adobe products aren't overpriced if you buy them as part of a 'Collection', which I did for two PC's. Such a collection offers 4 grade-A applications for the price of a single one bought separately. Upgrades are dirt-cheap. I'd NEVER buy a Corel graphics product again after the horrible piece of crap called Corel7 (the whole package).
Also, try submitting a.CDR to a service bureau. Some will accept it, but most will have problems with it. I'd rather submit.ai or.eps (which CorelDraw has always had trouble creating properly).
I have deadlines to meet, and that makes me choose Adobe products. I've used the rest, like Quark, Corel, Aldus (back when they owned PageMaker ver. 5) and Ventura.. they're just not as good.In my spare time I immediately boot to FreeBSD and enjoy a real OS, but that's just a hobby. I don't seriously use it on my desktop for anything other than mail, news and irc. All my servers run it 24/7 and have been up for over 84 days now since the last power dip, I love BSD on servers, but that's a whole different story. I can only hope and dream that one day my money-making apps will be ported to at least Linux so I can run them on FreeBSD in emulation and finally be rid of M$ since I refuse to buy Apple's hardware at their ridiculous price.
How about decent graphics packages and page layout tools? Don't give me the lowdown about latex or Gimp. I know.. but Gimp is a far cry from what Photoshop 6 is, and using Quark XPress, Illustrator or InDesign gives me MUCH more flexibility and standards-compliance (mind you, by standards I mean I can create files that printers and service bureaus can actually work with).
The very moment Adobe decides to port Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign over to FreeBSD (even closed source, I don't care) I'll dump my Win2K partitions straight away. Until then Linux/BSD just don't cut it for me yet, that's why I still dual boot between Win2K and FreeBSD 4.6 these days. FreeBSD+KDE3 is my desktop of choice, but for my job as a graphics designer I boot into windows. Apple's hardware is just too expensive, and I've given up hope for OS-X on x86. Maybe someday Wine will be so good that the aforementioned apps will run without a hitch, but I'm not holding my breath.
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That's funny.. I switched to FreeBSD out of Win2K because I was unhappy with 2K. My experience with Linux distro's, and I tried many of them over the years, is that each of them is different from the other. This requires me to learn a great many different versions of Linux (yes I know, 7.3 is not the version numer.. it's measured by kernel rev. etc..). But in operation each distro is different. SuSE differs from Mandrake differs from Slackware differs from Redhat etc. I take FreeBSD, set up the bare bones system, and get to be there and see where everything goes when I install it. Afterwards I can just copy /usr/ports/distfiles to any other box I want similarly configured. This cuts a lot of the download times. I then start the compile with the make.conf set to the proper CPU type on that box. This makes a difference many times on Intel hardware! Then when that's done I just dupe all of /usr/local/etc to the new box, restart the necessary daemons and I have two identical servers.
I did try FreeBSD on a desktop, and no, it's not a very fast-paced OS for games or anything. But then again, if I want games, I'll buy a PS2 but that's just me I guess. I use my FreeBSD desktop now for basic office work, and to be able to test new stuff locally before deploying anything.
My point is that if you want to know where everything goes, BSD is great, Slackware Linux too, but that's the ONLY Linux I know that works like this. Admitted, I haven't tried Gentoo yet but portage sounds good.
Also I used to run a server on SuSE 7.3 because I needed it set up very quickly and indeed, nothing beats a GUI setup when it comes to quickly setting up. Fire and forget, so to say. But man, was I sorry!!
The network card kept failing consistently without showing anything in logs. Network card fried?? Surprisingly, no! I decided to take the whole thing down, install *BSD, and it's now been running solidly ever since 4.6.2 was made a RELEASE. I've installed about 25 different BSD servers overtime during the past year and NONE of them required a reboot for any reason other than planned upgrades or hardware failure and some of those take LOTS of punishment 24/7.
I wish I could say the same about my Linux experiences, and I actually did try many times ever since RedHat 6.0 came out.
Know what you want, find the best tool for the job, and learn how to use it. The best desktop OS is a BSD anyway, but doesn't run on x86. I'll switch as soon as my Athlon 1100 gets really obsolete!
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Luckily I have nothing to do with the DMCA since I'm not a citizen of the US. However, you shouldn't be reading any of my subversive comments.. You government might think you're being pushed into terrorism and flagrant subversion of American corporate business models.
If applied with some care, the walkman could just as easily be broken off the disc. "oops, it fell ten stories down when the reviewer was listening to it while leaning out is office window having a smoke". Or am I missing something here?? Otherwise, just clip the headphone wire.. hook them up to plain old audio plugs, or a mini jack and off you go into a decent sound card.
I'd say the digital part has to be done differently by providing a player with the album stored in some sort of encrypted ROM chip, but even then.. sound is still sound and must be made audible at some point to be appreciated. That's where you can tap it, and make a plain MP3 out of it.
Sony are just making themselve impopular with this kind of practice. When will the big companies learn that the genie is out, it's unstoppable, and their business models just need adjustment???
AxyFTP is for you, sadly you're right about the others.. however label printing packages COULD work using Wine.
Even then I'd not use 5 in a mission critical setting just yet. As far as I can tell (haven't installed it yet, last time I tried it didn't work) it's got so many changes that some vital stuff is still bound to be broken and the team seems to be rushing the thing out. They have to, after last year's debacle, to maintain some credibility. ;-)
I'll stick with the final 4.x release+patches until 5.1 sees daylight. That is, I sure as hell will put 5.0 on my home box, but not at work!
That's probably the most egocentric rant/troll I EVER saw on slashdot! Squeezing your whole polemic into a single sentence you're essentially saying this: "I myself am the only and utmost important being on this planet, I shall strive solely for my own good inside the small sphere in which I live my daily life, the rest of the planet and all of the universe around it be damned."
This mentality, which I probably exaggerated a bit here but that's to prove a point, is the main cause for regulation to have been instated long ago when the USA industrialized. Anti-trust laws are there in fact to keep a democratic society from morphing into essentially a communist model. If General Motors, Microsoft, Bell, Enron etc were not checked the US would soon end up with a small set of huge megacorps that run the whole show. How is that different from the state owned manufacturing facilities that were set up in communist countries? Yeah so your megacorps are privately owned.. by a lucky few, just as the communist party consisted of a lucky few who essentially owned the big plants in their countries.
There is indeed no one person to figure this all out, and neither is there one system that will work properly at all times. Communism, if executed by a non-corrupt team of coordinators, would work great in times of crisis. Whereas liberalism, if executed by non-corrupt executives, works great during prosperous times to drive innovation.
You have a wave in economics that cycles approximately every 10 years or so. I'm not an economist so don't shoot me if I'm a few years off here, but the wave motion certainly is there. My guess is that this is caused by political rigidness and the natural inertia of policy creation and implementation.
The current 1st world (where you get the idea behind the USA's "vast lead" from is a mistery to me), is about as ideal as it gets.. considering human nature and our inclination towards greed. I don't believe in Utopia, but I try to do some good for myself as well as for other people in my direct surroundings every day. I'm not going to change the world, but at least I can keep a tiny little patch of it clean and make a miniscule number of people in it happy from time to time. The rest is up to the gods, but I don't expect to hear from them anytime soon.
No offense here, but it's pretty dumb not to read your own paper before handing it in now isn't it ;-)) What if Mr. Grolier had made a stupid typo somewhere!! Yikes, wouldn't want that!!
I just talked to a 14 year-old girl (friend's little sister) the other day who asked me about some assignment she had. Something to do with the dutch constitutions and how the Liberals forced a change in that in 1848. I told her to surf to google and stuff "1848" and "constitution" (in dutch) into the thing and set the language to dutch. Presto, there she had all the info she needed ready to cut and paste into word and put her own name underneath. This is of course flagrant plagiarism and illegal most of the time (which I told her), but does she care?? Not one bit, at least not yet.. and no teacher is going to find out. Probably this situation will last for years to come and we'll grow a nice generation of frauds until the teachers wisen up on the not-so-legitimate use of the Net by students.
That don't impress me much, as one of my favorite non-teen female singers tends to say. I can fork over $5000,- and follow a bit of training. However does that make me a good consultant for JBoss or anything else? I don't think so. Quality as a consultant in this field depends on more than just certificates and you simply can not do your job well based on just a JBoss certificate. You must know the implications of the underlying OS, hardware, network system etc. before you can make any sort of informed decision at all about anything to do with IT, including JBoss. Certification/branding, which are synonyms in my book, can only work properly if the training procedure is audited and the trainees get proper examinations where it is possible to fail. I've seen all too many courses where you just go there, sit in a classroom at a screen for two days, fill in a bogus test and receive your certificate no matter how horribly you did on your test.. You paid for it, so you're getting your cert. Practices like these make me very wary of 'branded' developers or consultants. Luckily I'm not in any position to hire personnel, I'd hate that.. but I know I would put them through a pretty strenuous pre setup hands-on test instead of an interview.
Well that's what I did.. and I read through each and every text MS threw at me during the process. I just find it funny that I can't seem to find the dreaded paragraph in any of the EULA bits..
The gap between the price/size ratio of harddisks and that of backup media/drives is becoming ever wider. It's getting almost exponentially more expensive to back up all of your data, Moore doesn't apply to tape backup I guess. What we need is a reliable, fast and cheap system to back up those 200+GB disk arrays without fuss and preferably on a single piece of media. ADR seems nice, but in my experience the reliability is sloppy.. Other alternatives are WAY too expensive compared to how cheap it is to build huge disk arrays.
I trawled through the entire Win2K Pro Eula here in the Netherlands when I got it from a shop, then read through all the additions that came with updates (SP2, SP3 and other smaller patches). Nowhere in the whole EULA or its additions could I find any statement that allows MS any access to my system whatsoever. Is there a difference in EULA's here, or am I just cross eyed??
So there should be at least ONE distro that attempts such unification. People who don't have the ability to customize their own desktop to the extent necessary for their needs, should be offered a choice. This unified desktop theming seems like a brilliant way to make inroads into the corporate desktop. Nothing fancy, just plain consinstent use of your computer for productivity. I like it! If you want custom, get Slack!
I see a plethora of distro's that do only a specific task. SuSE is good at this by providing separate packages for mail servers, database servers and what not. These packages al work just great, but what makes Windows so great on the corporate desktop?? Hardly anything Linux can't do today, or even yesterday. The typical corporate desktop contains the OS, Office and some online reference data like phone directories. Hardly anything more because if it gets more specialized, the IS department takes it out of the pool of standard desktops and treats it like a "workstation" or whatever because of the added complexity even if it's only a single app. What amazes me so much is that not a single distribution builder has come up with a plain vanilla corporate desktop. Openoffice, Evolution, most phone directories can be run using Wine since nothing fancy goes on under the hood, and you're done for 98% of office desktops! Provide a seamlessly integrating distribution for servers alongside with that, so that those hundreds of desktops can connect to it by default and as far as I know you'd be ready to kick some serious ass within your corp. It shouldn't be the corporate IS department's job to assemble a stable distro for this purpose. SuSE, Mandrake and Redhat have shown great skill at building special purpose Linux distributions, they just left this one gap open. Windows has done this for years.. Windows NT Workstation and Server were a great couple, need I mention the different breeds of Win2K? From your laptop all the way up to the biggest iron Intel has to offer. Linux does a great job at competing with the NT-based server products, and it'll be a long while before it gets dummy-proof enough for home users, but with an artificially limited set of applications and tech support staff only a phonecall away I'm sure Linux is already mature enough for the corporate desktop. From there on it's only a small step to the home PC, the same happened with MS-DOS way back then..
So where's Intel's response to all this? Will the Hammer be of much concern to players like Sun, who also offer cheap Sparcs nowadays? How does Hammer live up to Motorola's G4 (what's taking the G5 so long anyway??). I had expected a LITTLE more depth to a story like this.
This is just a poorly cut/pasted buch of marketing speak. So ok, the new athlons will have heat spreading.. No need to waste so much space on that.
Then why does the OS-X faq from Apple state: "that apart from a few architectural difference (such as our use of the Mach kernel), we try to keep Darwin as compatible as possible with FreeBSD (our BSD reference platform)." Or from OSnews: At its heart Mac OS X is a descendant of FreeBSD. The Apple engineers used FreeBSD as a blueprint for OS X.
Can you spell BSD as in OS-X??? Damn straight BSD isn't dead, far from it even, and it's bound to expand rapidly to overwhelm Linux's market share on the desktop AND low-end server if Apple play their cards right.
set your cvs tag to 4_6_1 and cvsup your sources. You'll get 4.6.1 don't worry, it was there.. be it for a very short while and as far as I can tell not really worthy of a point release. Why not just stick to 4.6-RELEASE and bump up the patch level all you want until 4.7-RELEASE?? (I know 5.0 probably should come out before 4.7 but hey.. who knows..)
How about the Czech Sudenten-area, the annexation of Austria, the assimilation of Saarland??? Neville just kept turning the other cheek.. his butt cheeks even and he got them smacked proper! The original poster is wrong by comparing the British reaction to Germany's invasion of Poland, but the fact of the matter is that the larger powers in Europe at the time did NOTHING for a very long while to stop Germany's expansion into other sovereign states' territory. Probably Austria's "Anschluss" was semi-voluntary, but the annihilation of Czechoslovakia as an autonomous and self-supporting state certainly wasn't!! The British government had been issuing warnings to the German government about those incidents, and when Germany invaded Poland the British couldn't suffer more loss of face so they reluctantly declared war. Learn your copulating history right next time.
I have one of those 8-inch monsters here in my attic too. A double drive even, in a separate unit bigger than your average microwave these days and more noisy than a harley davidson in heat. It's not a TRS-80 though, it's some freaky IBM word processing machine from the early seventies called a VisiText (or similar). I don't remember it storing more than 160K on either side of the HUGE disks though.. was it really 500K?? Wow.. wish I could actually PROGRAM that thing, but it's all closed. The thing doesn't run anything other than DisplayWrite 2. If anyone has more info on this beast, I'd love to hear from you. Sadly as far as I know there were only 12 or so ever made.. or at least in operation worldwide :-(
Wow, a turntable that reverses the earth's magnetic poles!! Where can I get one of those!?!? Imagine all the fun that can be had with one of those, not to mention the awesome breakbeats oozing out of my speakers while I wreak havoc on the world's compasses!! :-)) (--insert megalomanic grin here)
Aren't CPU's marketed in the same way? I recall this from the i386-era when i read in some magazine (PC Format if I'm not mistaken) about how these chips were all produced identically by Intel but differentiated during testing.
The testing was said to start at 33MHz. and stepped down to 25, 20 and 16MHz. depending on the reliability. As soon as the chip endured one of the tests properly it would get labeled and sold at the tested clock rate.
I don't know how much of this is true, if any, but it wouldnt seem too unlikely to me. If you could still sell hardware that can't reach its full potential but is well reliable at half its spec, I'd think most manufacturers would.
I've used this, and I don't like it. I pitted Photoshop (then at version 3.0) against PhotoPaint (then at version 5) and was horribly disgusted at the clumsiness with which Photopaint worked. Mind you, I was actually using Photopaint before I ever got a copy of Photoshop to play with so I wasn't biased towards Adobe. They just had a MUCH better product there and then. Nowadays Photoshop 6 fills all my needs, and I haven't checked back on photopaint since version 7 which I then compared to photoshop 4.0 if I'm not mistaken, but IMHO it still sucks eggs compared to Adobe's offering. Colour is important to me, I send it to professional presses not just desktop inkjets and photopaint (ver. 7 at least, I realize we're at 10 or something like that nowadays) just doesn't cut it. Transparency is also something Photoshop shines at.. I for one prefer Adobe's offerings above anything else I've seen on the market for the past 10 years. This 'market' being mostly the warez-scene for me back then.. I was 14.. but it doesn't make any difference now that I'm running a business and using the latest Photoshop legally. The Adobe products aren't overpriced if you buy them as part of a 'Collection', which I did for two PC's. Such a collection offers 4 grade-A applications for the price of a single one bought separately. Upgrades are dirt-cheap. I'd NEVER buy a Corel graphics product again after the horrible piece of crap called Corel7 (the whole package). Also, try submitting a .CDR to a service bureau. Some will accept it, but most will have problems with it. I'd rather submit .ai or .eps (which CorelDraw has always had trouble creating properly).
I have deadlines to meet, and that makes me choose Adobe products. I've used the rest, like Quark, Corel, Aldus (back when they owned PageMaker ver. 5) and Ventura.. they're just not as good.In my spare time I immediately boot to FreeBSD and enjoy a real OS, but that's just a hobby. I don't seriously use it on my desktop for anything other than mail, news and irc. All my servers run it 24/7 and have been up for over 84 days now since the last power dip, I love BSD on servers, but that's a whole different story. I can only hope and dream that one day my money-making apps will be ported to at least Linux so I can run them on FreeBSD in emulation and finally be rid of M$ since I refuse to buy Apple's hardware at their ridiculous price.
IT would be a proper word for a script kiddy.
How about decent graphics packages and page layout tools? Don't give me the lowdown about latex or Gimp. I know.. but Gimp is a far cry from what Photoshop 6 is, and using Quark XPress, Illustrator or InDesign gives me MUCH more flexibility and standards-compliance (mind you, by standards I mean I can create files that printers and service bureaus can actually work with). The very moment Adobe decides to port Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign over to FreeBSD (even closed source, I don't care) I'll dump my Win2K partitions straight away. Until then Linux/BSD just don't cut it for me yet, that's why I still dual boot between Win2K and FreeBSD 4.6 these days. FreeBSD+KDE3 is my desktop of choice, but for my job as a graphics designer I boot into windows. Apple's hardware is just too expensive, and I've given up hope for OS-X on x86. Maybe someday Wine will be so good that the aforementioned apps will run without a hitch, but I'm not holding my breath.